What defines a sporting legend? Is it all relative or are their certain criteria,my top 5 would be Pele,Ali,Zatopek,Regis and Astle.
Who are yours??
mightyWBA Sun 06/07/08 14:16
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well as you included Regis & Astle it's relative
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Pat Nevin (my sporting hero, and lovely guy to boot)
Steve Redgrave (consistency in a tough sport)
Tim Foster (member of Redgrave's four who overcame back surgery to win Olympic gold...and another very nice man)
Kelly Holmes (double Olympic gold after all those injuries, nuff said)
Paula Radcliffe (you may have noticed the slight Bedford bias here, but an amazing woman, has the marathon world record by a country mile)
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Ali, Daley Thompson, Ian Botham, Jimmy Greaves, Stirling Moss
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Pele and Ali go without saying. To them I would add Bobby Moore, Steve Redgrave and either I.T. Botham or Gareth Edwards for that try 35 years ago for the Barbarians v the All Blacks.
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It's probably someone whose name would be known for the sporting accomplishments to people who weren't interested in sport - though sporting legends would vary from one part of the world to another, or one country to another.
Hence Donald Bradman, Babe Ruth and Teofilio Stevenson would each be legends in their own country, but perhaps not elsewhere
I'd probably take Ali, Bradman, Bobby Charlton, Pele and Redgrave.
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British: Redgrave, Thompson, Botham, Moore and Johnson.
World: Pele, Woods, Federer, Senna and Lewis.
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Mick McCarthy, Sylvan E-Banks Blake, Michael Knightly, Matt Murray, Jodie Craddock, and the "binman" to return your insulting logo.
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Mick McCarthy, Sylvan E-Banks Blake, Matt Murray, Michael Knightly, Jodie Craddock.... and the "binman" to resturn your insulting logo
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OOOOOOOOOhhhhhhh! a bitter and twisted Dingle!
How about this one it shows a trophy(a big silver thing).
Boing Boing!
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British, Bobby Moore, Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles, Gerry Francis, (would you know I supprt QPR?) Ian Botham, jonny wilkinson
World, Pele, Ali, Carl Lewis,sugar ray leonard , gianfranco Zola.
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Sorry Ray but Rodney Marsh upset my old man in the 1967 League Final,you can't have him!
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Ok WBA, I was at that final, and it was superb, say sorry to your dad, Rodney upset me when I played against him too, I was marking him and he put 5 past us, lol, he was a great player, but bit mouthy now. good luck this season.
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I notice that the name Maradona doesn't appear , yet whenever 'Greatest footballer' is mentioned a lot of people mention him. I always thought Pele was far better.
My legends are:
Sir Ian Botham
Ali
Pele
Lance Armstrong
Jesse Owens
Sadly no room for Barry Cowdrill.
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